>>31321
To the original poster asking for help. The newer florescent tubes, I'm talking the long ones(they make short small ones too), have only two electrodes, one on each end. The former I talked about have two on each end, old style.
I'm fairly sure the new style pulses a large voltage across the tube for a small amount of time to get the current going in the tube. Which becomes a plasma. You might could get the circuits from the new style and vary them to make large pulses but instead of keeping the tube powered would deliver a large pulse then cut off. It would seem to be easier to start with something already made. Actually making this sort of thing from scratch would be a huge pain in the ass.
"...before RexResarch went down, he replied to some emails asking about it and he just called it "a UV bulb"..."
Florescent tubes ARE "UV" bulbs. They put out UV internally, which excites phosphors, creating viable light. Possibly one of the perils of using these is could the phosphors provide a return path for the voltage/field (internally), so that it's not all dumped to the outer electrode. Possibly you could use UV bulbs used in tanning beds. They might work better.
>>31327
>obfuscated description of amperes law
What a silly neurotic person you are. You can do better? Maybe you think I should give him the formal definition.
From Wikipedia,
"Ampère's law"
Explanation
The integral form of the original circuital law is a line integral of the magnetic field around some closed curve C (arbitrary but must be closed). The curve C in turn bounds both a surface S which the electric current passes through (again arbitrary but not closed—since no three-dimensional volume is enclosed by S), and encloses the current. The mathematical statement of the law is a relation between the circulation of the magnetic field around some path (line integral) due to the current which passes through that enclosed path (surface integral).[10][11]
In terms of total current, (which is the sum of both free current and bound current) the line integral of the magnetic B-field (in teslas, T) around closed curve C is proportional to the total current Ienc passing through a surface S (enclosed by C). In terms of free current, the line integral of the magnetic H-field (in amperes per metre, A·m−1) around closed curve C equals the free current If,enc through a surface S.
Who can understand that?
He said he was trying to make one of these and I talked about how tubes, florescents use plasmas to make light, how they use coils to limit current to not burn the electrodes up, how they start them and how he might go about using already made industrial materials to make what he wanted.
What do you do...nothing, not a thing, you added nothing but your little childish whiny criticism. What you wrote was of no use at all. All it showed was you are an abrasive pitiful neurotic self absorbed person who has nothing better to do than criticize others and is of no use yourself. You add nothing of value. Likely because you have no value. Baby mad because he not consulted. Baby mad but child not good enough to provide any help? Cry, cry, criticize those that do when you can't.